To celebrate 21 years of Darina’s Irish Examiner column, our team delved into the archives to create a magazine dedicated to the woman who taught so many of us to cook.

I’M JUST back from Slow Food Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto 2018, the biggest international event dedicated to food — 1.2m people attended in 2016.

Bare stone walls, bright white low wooden-beamed ceilings, conservatory and the Zen simplicity of Rohan Reilly prints throughout — swish, yet entirely of its place in charming Baltimore by the sea.

What's big for food in the week ahead?

Three times a year we offer a tapas course, it’s always oversubscribed as is the canapé class. We all love little bites of something tasty and delicious - such a lovely way of eating.

I’M just on my way home from the Slow Food Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre in Turin. It’s a biennial event that kicks off on Friday and finishes on Monday evening. 

Should you be looking for The Menu in the coming weeks then he shall mostly be found atop Neidín, roaming the wonderful wilds of West Cork with a knife in his belt and a skillet on his back for the Taste of West Cork Food Festival (Sept 9-18).

A REALLY posh new book celebrating Irish food and cooking has just arrived on my desk. HOME: Recipes from Ireland is Trish Deseine’s new book, and it feels like a love letter to her home country.

2 medium butternut squash

Chapter One: An Irish Food Story

Some of Cork’s best-known food heroes took their produce to Dublin yesterday in a bid to tempt international conference visitors south.

On hearing of a spud-related attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records, The Menu immediately hitched up the wagon and pointed it westwards once more for The Menu truly venerates this most tremendous of all tubers.

The Menu would scarcely have thunk it a few short years ago but Irish festival season, most definitely upon us, is coming to be dominated by food-related events, a cause for rejoicing.

An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale that spent nearly a week bonding with boats off north Sydney was put down after vets said it was too weak to survive.

OTTO KUNZE and his wife Hilde run a restaurant with rooms in Dunworley, near Butlerstown in west Cork.

SLOW FOOD West Cork and the Schull ICA recently teamed up to host an event where guild members and their friends and local farming families could meet the foodmakers who sell at the local farmers’ markets.

THIS week we feature two other Eurotoque award winners: West Cork Natural Cheese, and Frank Krawczyk of West Cork salamis.